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Law Reports. Reports of judgments of courts on points of law, published for the purpose of being used as precedents (see (REPORTS). Prior to 1865, these reports were all executed and published as mere private speculations, one reporter or pair of reporters being usually, though not always, accredited by the chief judge of each Court. For an account of these reporters and their works, see Handbook of English Law Reports, by Master Fox. In 1865 'The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales' began to publish monthly the reports called The Law Reports. These, though perhaps the best known, have no monopoly-for contemporaneous monthly reports are published under the name of The Law Journal, and contemporaneous weekly reports under the names of The Law Times Reports, The Solicitors' Journal and Weekly Reporter and All England Reports, and The Times Law Reports. All reports made by members of the Bar and published on their responsibility may be cited in argument. For abbrev...
financial reports
financial reports Reports that show the financial status of a company at a given time ...
English reports
English reports. A complete annotated reprint of the original Reports from 1220 to 1865 in uniform volumes and modern type....
Reports
Reports. 'A report,' says Coke, 'signifyeth a public relation or bringing again to memory of cases judicially argued, debated, resolved, or adjudged in any of the King's Courts of justice, together with such causes and reasons as were delivered by the judges.'-Co. Litt. 293 a. See LAW REPORTS.Also, certificates from the masters of the Courts, when the Courts make reference to them concerning matters of account, etc.; or from committees of either House of Parliament....
Reports, The
Reports, The. Coke's reports from 14 Eliz. to 13 Jac. 1, which are usually quoted as 'Rep.' They are divided into thirteen parts, and the modern editions are in six volumes, including the index....
Final report, charge-sheet
Final report, charge-sheet, the expressions 'charge-sheet' or 'final-report' are not used in the Code, but it is understood in Police Manuals of several States containing the rules and regulations to be a report by the police filed under s. 170 of the code, described as a 'charge-sheet'. In case of reports sent under s. 169, i.e., where there is no sufficiency of evidence to justify forwarding of a case to a Magistrate, it is termed variously i.e., referred charge, final report or summary, Gangadhar Janardan Mhatre v. State of Maharashtra, (2004) 7 SCC 768 (774). [Criminal PC, 1973, ss. 169, 170 and 173(2)]...
Fir
A genus Abies of coniferous trees often of large size and elegant shape some of them valued for their timber and others for their resin The species are distinguished as the balsam fir the silver fir the red fir etc The Scotch fir is a Pinus...
report
report : a usually detailed account or statement: as a : an account or statement of the facts of a case heard and of the decision and opinion of the court or of a quasi-judicial tribunal determining the case b : a written submission of a question of law (as by a lower court) to an appellate court for review before final decision is entered c : a usually formal and sometimes official statement giving the conclusions and recommendations of a person (as a master) or group (as a legislative committee) authorized or delegated to consider a matter or proposal [the committee made an unfavorable on the bill] d : a usually formal account of the results of an investigation given by a person or group delegated or authorized to make the investigation e : an analysis of operations and progress and a statement of future plans made at stated intervals by an administrator or executive or group of executives to those to whom such a report is owed [the board of directors issued its annual to th...
Master of Reports and Entries
Master of Reports and Entries. This Chancery official was not to be continued after the next vacancy occurring after the Act 18 & 19 Vict. c. 134....
Plowden's (Edm.) Commentaries or Reports
Plowden's (Edm.) Commentaries or Reports, first published in 1571. They contain cases from 4 Edw. 6 to 20 Eliz., and from the close style of the reporter, have been said to form some of the most instructive and most entertaining books in the law, 5 Reeves, c. 35, 241....
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